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    • Weaving Baskets

    • Weaving Baskets

    • Crafts

    • Weaving of all kinds is a favorite (and traditional) activity in Vanuatu; each island claims a particular style or specialty in weaving. Here, my friend Edna is teaching me how to weave a basket in the style of the island Futuna. It was taken on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • Weaving is a big part of a woman's life in Vanuatu. This is a photo of me learning how to weave mats from dried pandanus leaves with my host aunt Monique.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • Weaving is a big part of a woman's life in Vanuatu. This is a photo of me learning how to weave mats from dried pandanus leaves with my host aunt Monique.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding Bliss

    • Wedding Bliss

    • Weddings; Celebrations; Dance; Traditional dress

    • The midwife at a local clinic celebrates on her wedding day in Burkina Faso. The bride is dancing with friends during a Muslim wedding celebration where friends stick money on her while singing and dancing. People all around are using technology...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health

    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health

    • Maternal and child health

    • Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 2

    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 2

    • Maternal and child health

    • Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day, where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 3

    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 3

    • Maternal and child health

    • Each week at the local dispensary we have maternal and child health day where, moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations, and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Honduras

    • Welcome to Honduras

    • Transportation

    • The traffic in Honduras can be quite an experience. This picture shows the incredibly overwhelming sense that one gets when in the center of town. October 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to the Banana Republic!

    • Welcome to the Banana Republic!

    • Markets; Agriculture

    • Early morning, the owner of this truck (along with 7 others lined up) sells his plantains in the market place of . The amount of platanos produced and the overloaded trucks are quite a site!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Environment; Water and Sanitation

    • This is a photo of a field base training that I set up in my village Koporo-pen. We were doing a top well repair and another Volunteer and I took that opportunity to train Peace Corps trainees as well as our own village masons. We brought some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What Topography!

    • What Topography!

    • environment

    • This photo was taken in September 1990 outside Bandipur, Nepal. This photo was taken at about 4500-5000 ft of elevation. In Nepal, you don't ask people where they live. You ask "how high" their village is. Elevation is the main thing that dictates...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What's Your Flavour?

    • What's Your Flavour?

    • Food and meals

    • Volunteers Tim, Emily, Shannon and I are sampling some of the fare at the House of Flavour rasta shop in Georgetown, Guyana. Don't always judge your meal by the looks...this was GREAT, and the fact that it cost less than $2.00 was even better! ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wheelbarrow

    • Wheelbarrow

    • camps and clubs; sports

    • This photo was taken in March 2008 in Santa Rosa, Paraguay at a regional youth leadership camp. The camp was held during one day where youth, ages 13-21 came to be empowered to become leaders. They learned skills, such as this one, which focused...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Transportation; Housing

    • Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken with my host family shortly before training ended in September of 1984. They took such good care of me. At first they attempted to serve me meals that they thought were Americanized. When they realized how much I liked...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Without a Door

    • Without a Door

    • Elders; Host community friends

    • I took this photo on December 9, 2010 during the 16 Days of Activism, an annual campaign on gender-based violence. In one of our door-to-door outreach efforts in Block A, South Africa, a woman invited me and my coworkers into her house to...
    • Volunteer Photos

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